The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green Bank Telescope and VLA ...

Tragedy struck early Easter Sunday on the 10 Freeway when a wrong-way collision resulted in at least one fatality and multiple injuries, according to KTLA. The incident, which occurred near ...

JWST detects early galaxy Zhúlóng at redshift z=7.3 Galaxy formed just 800 million years post-Big Bang Zhúlóng shares a spiral structure with the Milky Way ...

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the ...

Current models suggest the Milky Way hosts around 10 billion of these embers ... With ten billion of these stars scattered through our Milky Way galaxy, even a tiny fraction hosting temperate rocky ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

If it’s the source of ORC 1, this first-of-its-kind odd celestial circle is a staggering two million light-years across—more than 15 times wider than our own Milky Way galaxy—making it vast ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...

However, the angle of observation means that the galaxy is somewhat mysterious as well. No one knows whether the Sombrero has spiral arms like our Milky Way, or whether it is a more fuzzy and less ...